Key Apple Executive to Depart — Apple Inc. is losing one of its key technology executives. — Tony Fadell, a senior executive who was instrumental in the development of the iPod, is leaving Apple for personal reasons, people familiar with the matter said.

Report: Tony Fadell, iPod chief, to leave Apple post — Update 7:25 a.m. PST: Apple confirmed Tuesday morning that Fadell is stepping down, but says he plans to remain with the company as an adviser to CEO Steve Jobs. — One of the fathers of the iPod, Tony Fadell, is leaving Apple …

Apple: Soon to Be a Mobile Gaming Force — Watch out, Sony and Nintendo; overnight, the maker of the iPhone is making a mark on the handheld gaming industry — I didn't expect much from games on the iPhone. I had visions of casual games, perhaps a fancy take on solitaire or a version …

Fujitsu Lifebook N7010 Hands-On and Video — This morning, Fujitsu announced the Lifebook N7010, a notebook with a novel feature: a secondary, 4-inch touchscreen LCD built into the keyboard deck. We've had a few days to play around with a pre-production version of this 16-inch, $1,499 desktop replacement.

How To Watch Election Day Live Online — Been refreshing Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight.com six times a day for the last two years? Then you'll need to know how to feed your election news habit during office hours and later Tuesday. — Here's how to get the whole picture, live:

Google, Yahoo and The DOJ at The Concession Stand — By now, surely many of use have seem the Wall Street Journal report, or parallel coverage, that Google and Yahoo are hedging their bets on their proposed search deal to make it more palatable (and less lawsuit-friendly) for the U.S. Justice Department.

Salesforce.com on Microsoft: “They hate everybody” — Salesforce.com's strategy can be boiled down to one word, according to chief executive Marc Benioff — love. Of course, Benioff was being a little tongue-in-cheek as he answered questions from analysts and reporters at today's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.

The Very Expensive Myth of Long Distance — A showdown over the billions of dollars traded in the dark underside of the telephone system was postponed on Monday. Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had proposed a complex plan to restructure …

Ray Ozzie ticks off Tablet PC fans — “I won't go so far as to say it's the next mouse, meaning it will be on everything and you have to use it. But it's not going to be like the Tablet PC, where it was truly niche.” — Ray Ozzie, discussing Windows 7's touch features during our interview with him last week in Los Angeles.

Personal note: A job change for yours truly — As many people who have been reading this blog for awhile probably know, I work for the Globe and Mail, a daily newspaper based in Toronto, where I've been working since 1994 or so. I've written about the stock market, the rise of the Internet …

Apple: No new products before the holidays — Despite Internet rumors of forthcoming product releases, an Apple representative confirmed that the company has no plans to release any new products before the holidays. — “Our holiday line-up is set,” Apple spokesman Bill Evans told Macworld.

Olympus announces midrange E-30 dSLR — Olympus' E-30 fills the hole in its dSLR lineup. — (Credit: Olympus America) — With a price gap of about $900 between the Olympus E-52 and the E-3, Olympus has long had a pretty big hole in its dSLR lineup—a hole populated by extremely popular competitors …

Following e-voting glitches — In any election, voting problems are bound to crop up—whether it's miscalibrated electronic machines or a lack of pencils to fill out paper ballots. — In such a highly anticipated election, the sheer number of people expected to vote Tuesday will likely add to the problems.